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Irish Vegan Feminism: Intersections of Sexism, Speciesism, and Resistance in Postcolonial Ireland

Dr. Corey WrennApril 15, 2018July 16, 2018
In Animal Rights, Human Rights: Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation, David Nibert (2002) suggests that the switch from an egalitarian economic structure to hunting initiated gender distinction such that sexism and speciesism are most accuratelyContinue reading
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The Social Psychology of Veganism – Fostering Good Feelings

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 3, 2017October 2, 2018
Milwaukee activists employing feel good messages in resistance to neighborhood violence. If advocates can foster good feelings, they can foster attitude change. Good feelings improve positive thinking, and those good feelings will be associated withContinue reading
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Colonizing England and the Naming of Animals

Dr. Corey WrennJuly 2, 2017December 16, 2018
  While many recognize Great Britain as a great imperialist power responsible for untold suffering over the centuries, some might be surprised to learn that the island itself was the site of extensive colonization priorContinue reading
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Are Animal Crackers Vegan?

Dr. Corey WrennDecember 3, 2016December 1, 2018
Note: Nabisco removed the cage imagery in 2018. See an updated essay on the continued problems with this design here. Dating back to 1902, Barnum's animal crackers have been an American classic for generations. TheContinue reading
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A Month of Vegan Research: The China Study

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 18, 2016June 8, 2018
The following literature review is part of a series for World Vegan Month. Other essays can be accessed by visiting the essays catalog.   T. Colin Campbell.  2006.  The China Study:  The Most Comprehensive StudyContinue reading
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A Month of Vegan Research: An Empirical Look at Becoming Vegan

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 2, 2016October 25, 2018
The following literature review is part of a series for World Vegan Month. Other essays can be accessed by visiting the essays catalog. Barbara McDonald.  2000.  "'Once You Know Something, You Can't Not Know It.'Continue reading
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When White Makes Right: Racism, Neo-Colonialism, and Single-Issue Campaigns

Dr. Corey WrennOctober 2, 2016September 9, 2018
The white-centrism of vegan advocacy is perhaps best evidenced in its partiality for single-issue campaigns targeting the practices of non-Western cultures. Take, for instance, the 2013 Free From Harm call to action regarding "live sushi." "Live sushi" entailsContinue reading
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The Vegan Politics of Taste

Dr. Corey WrennSeptember 18, 2016January 26, 2019
Image from BZDogs Psychologists tell us that we eat with our eyes. Sociologists, however, think we eat with our ideologies. Sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has theorized extensively on the politics of taste. What is good taste?Continue reading
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The Surprising History of John Harvey Kellogg and His War on “Meat”

Dr. Corey WrennSeptember 14, 2016January 18, 2019
But although the sheep goes dumb to the slaughter, do not its [sic] eloquent eyes appeal for mercy?  Do not the bleating of the calf, the bellowing of the bull, the cackling of the frightenedContinue reading
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You Won’t Believe This Shocking Whole Foods “Healthcare” Policy

Dr. Corey WrennSeptember 5, 2016September 16, 2018
Photo by Jay Janner   Cooperation with speciesist industry is a primary tactic for professionalized organizations in the Nonhuman Animal rights movement, despite its dangerous consequences for normalizing a post-speciesist ideology. This strategy concerns meContinue reading
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Dr. Wrenn is Lecturer of Sociology with the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent and co-director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Political Movements. She was awarded Exemplary Diversity Scholar, 2016 by the University of Michigan’s National Center for Institutional Diversity. She served as council member with the American Sociological Association’s Animals & Society section (2013-2016), was elected Chair in 2018, and is co-founder of the International Association of Vegan Sociologists. She serves as Book Review Editor to Society & Animals and is a member of The Vegan Society’s Research Advisory Committee. Dr. Wrenn has been published in several peer-reviewed academic journals including the Journal of Gender Studies, Feminist Media Studies, Environmental Values, Disability & Society, Food, Culture & Society, and Society & Animals. In July 2013, she founded the Vegan Feminist Network, an academic-activist project engaging intersectional social justice praxis. She is the author of A Rational Approach to Animal Rights: Extensions in Abolitionist Theory (Palgrave MacMillan 2016), Piecemeal Protest: Animal Rights in the Age of Nonprofits (University of Michigan Press 2019), and Animals in Irish Society (SUNY Press 2021).

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Barcelona Day 2. Visited another vegan shop and sc Barcelona Day 2. Visited another vegan shop and schlepped through the heat to the beach which was too hot and too busy, so I spent my evening reading radical feminist theory on the roof of my hotel. Some interesting talks today. I keynote tomorrow on my forthcoming book, Vegan Feminism. 🫠☀️
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